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Old 3rd Nov 2009, 21:01
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Flintstone
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Remember the craze for 'investing' in ostriches in the 90's? When I lived in Australia I flew a charter to an ostrich farm with a load of Hong Kong chinese sucker....sorry, customers. I tagged on to the guided tour during which the farmer explained that they could buy a bird for A$20,000 which laid eggs that you sold on for A$2000 apiece. You could also sell a bird for feathers, meat, skin and oil. When I asked the farmer if there was A$20,000 worth of meat, oil skin and feathers in a bird he just smiled and whispered "Nah mate. It's like Amway, sooner or later someone's gunna have to clean the dunny".

Neither Airbus nor Boeing will drop their prices and RYR have their older aircraft, which they can't sell, coming up for expensive maintenance. Guess who's going to be holding the metaphorical toilet brush?